The Sound of Music Cast
Meet the Cast
Maria (Julie Andrews)
How do you solve a problem like Maria? Easy. Just hire Julie Andrews to play her. After the film's release, when a lot of high-profile film critics were busy hating, they still agreed that Julie An...
Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer)
Captain Georg von Trapp finds himself in a kind of Brady-Bunch-meets-the-Partridge-Family scenario. He's lost his wife several years earlier and is stuck trying to figure out how to raise his seven...
Liesl von Trapp (Charmian Carr)
Newsflash: There were teenagers even in 1938. Liesl, the oldest of the von Trapp children at 16, is at that weird stage where she's looking forward to being an adult but doesn't quite know how to p...
The Von Trapp Family
We've got character analyses for the Captain and Liesl, but what about the rest of the gang?Obvious ancestors of the Partridge Family, Captain von Trapp's other children all seem very pleasant and...
Mother Abbess (Reverend Mother) (Peggy Wood)
Nuns tend to get a bad rap in movies as strict, hand-slapping taskmasters who love to torment schoolkids. Not our Reverend Mother. We don't really get backstory on Maria's family, but she doesn't a...
Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte)
Fascist-in-training Rolfe is a telegram delivery boy who flirts with Liesl. He seems like a nice enough boy at first, and it looks like he and Liesl are headed toward hot and heavy romance. In the...
Max (Richard Haydn)
Remember when Max sings to Georg, "Compromise and be wise. […] You won't have to bow your head [to the Germans], just stoop a little"? No? Oh, sorry—they cut that song from the film version. Ma...
The Baroness (Eleanor Parker)
The Baroness Elsa von Schraeder is a glamorous widow living in high-society Vienna. She's smart, beautiful, wealthy, and sophisticated—but she still doesn't get the guy. Even worse, she loses him...
Herr Zeller (Ben Wright)
When every sentence you speak starts and ends with "Heil Hitler," you're just not going to be the life of the party. Herr Zeller, the head of the local Nazi organization, is probably the least like...
The Nuns at the Abbey
The sisters are stumped. How do they solve a problem like Maria? According to which of them you ask, she's a "flibbertigibbet, a will-o' the wisp, a clown." Basically, they don't know what to do wi...
Franz and Frau Schmidt (Gil Stuart and Norma Varden)
Franz and Frau Schmidt are servants in the von Trapp household. We don't learn too much about them, but we know that the von Trapps hide their eventual departure from them so they can (truthfully)...